Devin Mccarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devin Mccarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Analytics American Civil Liberties Union, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation
Party elites frequently seek to change election rules for their benefit, but these changes do not always align with the democratic principles of the mass public. If party elites are able to influence what the public considers fair, the effectiveness of this public constraint would be limited. This paper tests three possible mechanisms by which this elite influence could function using survey experiments. First, elite cues favoring electoral manip…
Ranked Choice Voting as a Generational Issue in Modern American Politics
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a class of reforms increasingly used in the United States to replace plurality and runoff elections. We ask whether support for RCV taps a larger generational divide in politics. We consult five surveys, two of these from recent adoption campaigns, and all with different ways of asking about RCV support. Generation is a significant predictor in four of these samples, accounting for standard demographic factors and pa…
Partisanship vs. Principle
Voter access has become a deeply polarized issue in American politics. It is well known that policymakers’ positions on election laws are often dictated by whether they think the laws will help their electoral interests and those of their party. But we know little about whether public opinion on election laws is similarly driven by partisan interest or is instead constrained by concerns of procedural legitimacy. To answer this question, I conduct…
Partisanship vs. Principle
Voter access has become a deeply polarized issue in American politics. It is well known that policymakers’ positions on election laws are often dictated by whether they think the laws will help their electoral interests and those of their party. But we know little about whether public opinion on election laws is similarly driven by partisan interest or is instead constrained by concerns of procedural legitimacy. To answer this question, I conduct…
Ranked Choice Voting as a Generational Issue in Modern American Politics
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a class of reforms increasingly used in the United States to replace plurality and runoff elections. We ask whether support for RCV taps a larger generational divide in politics. We consult five surveys, two of these from recent adoption campaigns, and all with different ways of asking about RCV support. Generation is a significant predictor in four of these samples, accounting for standard demographic factors and pa…
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation
Party elites frequently seek to change election rules for their benefit, but these changes do not always align with the democratic principles of the mass public. If party elites are able to influence what the public considers fair, the effectiveness of this public constraint would be limited. This paper tests three possible mechanisms by which this elite influence could function using survey experiments. First, elite cues favoring electoral manip…
Partisanship vs. Principle
Voter access has become a deeply polarized issue in American politics. It is well known that policymakers’ positions on election laws are often dictated by whether they think the laws will help their electoral interests and those of their party. But we know little about whether public opinion on election laws is similarly driven by partisan interest or is instead constrained by concerns of procedural legitimacy. To answer this question, I conduct…
Ranked Choice Voting as a Generational Issue in Modern American Politics
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a class of reforms increasingly used in the United States to replace plurality and runoff elections. We ask whether support for RCV taps a larger generational divide in politics. We consult five surveys, two of these from recent adoption campaigns, and all with different ways of asking about RCV support. Generation is a significant predictor in four of these samples, accounting for standard demographic factors and pa…
Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation
Party elites frequently seek to change election rules for their benefit, but these changes do not always align with the democratic principles of the mass public. If party elites are able to influence what the public considers fair, the effectiveness of this public constraint would be limited. This paper tests three possible mechanisms by which this elite influence could function using survey experiments. First, elite cues favoring electoral manip…
Democracy (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Voting (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (2 works) · Law (2 works)